Grant Savvy Books: The Ask

The newest book added to the Savvy Library is "The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit, Cause, Creative Project or Business Venture" by Laura Fredricks.

Below is a great review from the experts at the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They are a tremendous resource for information and having worked with them early in their inception I can speak highly for how much knowledge Marilyn shares with those in Allen County and beyond.

"The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit, Cause, Creative Project or Business Venture

In her updated and expanded version of The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture, author and fundraiser Laura Fredricks offers a step-by-step approach to making the ask. Divided in two parts (What do I need to Know Before I ask? and How Do I Make the Ask?), The Ask outlines the process with chapters on: What Does Money Mean to You?; How Do I Know Who to Ask and When to Ask?; Asking for a Cause – Small and Large Charitable Gifts; Handling the Responses to the Ask: Following Up with Each and Every Ask.

Fredricks offers sample dialogues to prompt “asking” conversations along and frames the book with her list of Ten Things to Know about Every Ask."

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